Ratliff City, OK 73481 Frost Dates
73481, near Ratliff City, OK: the frost window
Around 04/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 221 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 204 days after the last spring frost.
Ratliff City sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ratliff City's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ratliff City against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 204 frost-free days, Ratliff City places 16,809 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within OK, it ranks 619 of 764.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 73481: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ratliff City can differ from the 73481 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ratliff City's frost date answer different questions.